- Hello. - Hi, there.
Welcome to "America's Got Talent."
- Thank you. - Who are you?
- My name operating is Shoji Nadorishi,
and I'm from New York City.
- Shoji. - Shoji, how are old are you?
- I am nine years old. - Nine years old.
- Wow. - Wow.
- Welcome to Los Angeles! - Thank you.
- And you have a microphone already.
Are you going to sing for us today?
- I'm gonna be doing some magic.
- Oh. - Wow.
- Magic.
- Nine-year-old magician.
- So since you're only nine years old,
when did you start?
- I started, like, almost three years ago.
- And you know what the prize is to win this whole thing?
- $1 million. - Wow.
- You know it. - No messing up on that.
- What are you gonna do with that $1 million?
- Maybe buy some tacos and maybe a dog.
- Tacos and a dog? - Yeah.
- Tacos is your favorite? - I like carne asadas.
- Mmm, me too. - May I ask a question?
Shoji, do you think you were born with magic powers?
- Yes. - Shoji, good luck to you.
- Thank you.
- Let's get that million dollars.
- Can I come down?
- Why not? - Yeah, be careful.
[mystical electronic music]
♪
- Hello. - Hello.
- Hi. - Very nice to meet all of you.
- Hello. - Okay, look.
Nothing in my hands, right? - Nothing.
- But if I blow, a coin appears.
- Wow.
- Regular old American quarter.
- Yeah.
- Now, many people don't know this about coins,
but you can actually take them, reduce them into atoms,
and release them into space. - Oh, my--it disappeared.
- And then you can grab them again
and make them appear just like that.
[cheers and applause]
I'll do it again. Watch.
Take it. Wave.
It's gone.
It's actually right here though.
I'll put it on the palm of my hand.
Look. Give a wave.
And it's back. One last time.
Watch.
[cheers and applause]
Wave. And it's gone.
- Wow. - Wow.
- This is a deck made by one of my favorite magicians,
Shin Lim. You might know him.
- We know him. - We do.
Okay, Howie... - Yeah.
- I want you to say "stop" anytime.
- Stop. - Right here?
- Yes. - Okay, perfect.
We'll take the top card. The queen of hearts.
- Okay.
♪
- Okay.
Can you just cover your hand on top of it?
- Yeah. - You can leave like--
- You want to hold my hand? - Yeah, no just cover it.
- I'm sure you're all clean.
- He's a little weird with the hand-holding.
- Okay, okay. [chuckles]
We'll take the second card. Queen of spades.
- Uh-huh. - Okay.
- Okay. And I'll have this card.
But if I blow, I have the queen of hearts.
- What--wait.
- But if I have the queen of hearts,
that means you must have...
- But I had the queen of hearts.
Oh my--I've got the queen of spades!
[audience cheering]
- So good. - Yes.
- That was amazing, buddy!
- Thank you very much. - That was so good.
[cheers and applause]
- That was so good.
- That was great. - Ye are a wizard.
[laughter]
- Shoji, I can see into the future,
and I can see that you're going to have Shin Lim
run for his money one day.
- Thank you. - I can see that already.
- Nine years old. - Thank you so much.
- You're quite amazing. - Thank you.
- Did you like it? - I loved it.
And I'll tell you, you're as good as the people
that we see who are twice or three times as old as you.
- I mean, I'm okay, but I'm not Shin Lim or Eric Jones.
- I think it's great that you think like that
because that means that you know that
there's a lot of room for you to get better.
- Yeah. - What did you think, Simon?
- You know, you're so cute and charming, Shoji.
You have to be a bit crazy
and believe in magic like I do
because, you know, I've seen strange things
happen in my house, which must be magic.
- Did you hit your head also
when you had that bad accident?
- I did a bit, yes, yes.
I think you're sort of like the real Harry Potter.
You have magic powers.
- Thank you. - Adorable.
- Shoji, let's see how the voting goes.
Should we start with Simon?
- Yes. - Simon, is it a yes or a no?
- I'm going to say yes.
- Yes! - There's one.
Sofía. - Yes.
- [gasps]
- And what do you think?
- Shoji, do you know how many yeses you need to move on?
- Three.
- You want three? - Yes.
- Yes! - Yes!
- Why-- - Aww.
- Shoji, why leave it at three when you can four?
I give you a fourth yes. Mwah.
- Oh, my God, thank you so much!
- Well done, Shoji.
- Adorable. - Adorable.
- Aww, he's crying.
- Shoji, tell me what you're thinking.
- I'm in a dream.
- You think this is a dream? No, this is real, buddy.
- Aww.
- Congratulations. - Well done, Shoji.
- Thank you so much.
- He's cute, isn't he? - Adorable.
- All right. You feel relieved?
- Yes. - All right, let's go find Dad.
- There. - There he is.
Oh, there he is.